More than 200 million Twitter users have had their email
addresses compromised and being given away for free on a hacker forum.
According to reports, the stolen information by the hacker forum are email
addresses used to set up accounts, and
this will be a source of concern for anonymous users who registered with a
sensitive address.
Twitter owned by Elon Musk has not responded to different requests for comments
about the breach, with the BBC not yet verifying the data, with breaches often
turning out to contain duplicate, old or fake information.
According to Alon Gal of cyber-crime information firm, Hudson Rock, the firm
that discovered the leak, it contained more than 200 million email
addresses and was "significant".
Gal told the BBC that it would "unfortunately lead to a lot of accounts
getting hacked, targeted with phishing, and doxxed".
Doxxing is known as the act of publishing personal information about someone
that can lead to their identification.
Some form users have expressed their interest in the data, with one saying:
"Thanks for your service cannot wait for the chaos."
Tech news website, Bleeping Computer has downloaded the data and confirmed that
the email addresses were correct for many of the listed Twitter profiles, while
also discovering that the data contained duplicates.
It reported: "The full dataset has obviously not been confirmed. The
dataset is far from complete, as there were many users who were not found in
the leak."
Another researcher suggested that many Twitter accounts feature many times, but
the number of unique email addresses involved is still more than 100 million.
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